Now that Kylian Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s World Cup is over \u2014 it ended with a 6-4 loss to England in Saturday’s third-place match with him taking the lead for the World Cup’s top scorer \u2014 he finally gets a break after a long club season with Real Madrid and a deep tournament campaign with France.<\/p>\n
Mbapp\u00e9 now heads back to Real Madrid, where Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has returned as manager and will be tasked with turning things around for a club coming off a disappointing campaign.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid\u2019s next game against Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a will come in a friendly on Wednesday, August 12. But Madrid\u2019s competitive debut in La Liga is set for Saturday, August 22, when it faces Espanyol at RCDE Stadium.<\/p>\n
(Photo by Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n It is unclear how quickly Mbapp\u00e9 will be available for Madrid after France\u2019s World Cup run ended. That gives him a little more than a month before Real Madrid\u2019s La Liga opener, though his exact return will likely depend on rest, recovery and Mourinho\u2019s preseason plan.<\/p>\n France\u2019s next games will come during the September international window, when Les Bleus open their UEFA Nations League campaign in League A Group A1.<\/p>\n France will take on T\u00fcrkiye on Sept. 25 before facing Belgium on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n Those matches are also expected to begin a new era for France, with Zinedine Zidane widely expected to take charge after Didier Deschamps\u2019 final match as manager at the World Cup.<\/p>\n Zidane, one of the greatest players in French football history, helped lead France to the 1998 World Cup as a player before later building a brilliant managerial r\u00e9sum\u00e9 at Real Madrid, where he won three straight Champions League titles.<\/p>\n For Mbapp\u00e9, that means the next few months will bring two fresh starts: a new season at Real Madrid under Mourinho, and a new international chapter with France under Zidane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Now that Kylian Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s World Cup is over \u2014 it ended with a 6-4 loss to England in Saturday’s third-place match with him taking the lead for the World Cup’s top scorer \u2014 he finally gets a break after a long club season with Real Madrid and a deep tournament campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}